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  • Safety Suggestions for 3D-Printing COVID-19 Medical Parts at Home

    15 Apr, 2020

    In this post, we’re going to delve deeper into the procedures that you could use for making face shields, spare parts and medical parts for COVID-19. Please note that this article is well-meaning advice given to aid you in a time of need and in no means medical advice. We are not implying that the materials or processes or suggestions listed or linked to are fit for purpose or indeed that they should be used to make a medical device or ancillary product; only that of all of the printable ...
  • Move your booty!

    15 Apr, 2020

    We’re happy to see this labor and delivery unit is staying safe and having fun!: @adrienneporter0 on @tiktok_us pic.twitter.com/kJyTkcLapW
    — BlogHer (@BlogHer) April 11, 2020
  • 3D Printing Against Corona!

    15 Apr, 2020
    3D Printing Against Corona is a global network of 3D printing experts providing care and treatment for everyone. Let’s do what our technology teaches us to do: think differently. Let’s push the boundaries of what is possible. Let’s join forces to provide treatment and care for everyone!

    This platform was created to help members of the 3D printing community in supporting others battling Covid-19. The Coronavirus has spread rapidly all across the globe. If infections proceed at their cur...
  • 3D Printing Against Corona!

    15 Apr, 2020
    3D Printing Against Corona is a global network of 3D printing experts providing care and treatment for everyone. Let’s do what our technology teaches us to do: think differently. Let’s push the boundaries of what is possible. Let’s join forces to provide treatment and care for everyone!

    This platform was created to help members of the 3D printing community in supporting others battling Covid-19. The Coronavirus has spread rapidly all across the globe. If infections proceed at their cur...
  • 3D Printing and COVID-19, April 14 Update!

    15 Apr, 2020

    Companies, organizations and individuals continue to attempt to lend support to the COVID-19 pandemic supply effort. We will be providing regular updates about these initiatives where necessary in an attempt to ensure that the 3D printing community is aware of what is being done, what can be done and what shouldn’t be done to provide coronavirus aid.




    Powder bed fusion manufacturer EOS hosts LinkedIn group and an online platform, 3DAgainstCorona, to network AM providers ...
  • Ahead of the curve: South Korea's evolving strategy to prevent a coronavirus resurgence

    15 Apr, 2020
    A smartphone tracking app for new airport arrivals. A “smart city” database of thousands of people infected by the new coronavirus and their contacts. Electronic bracelets that track people breaking quarantine laws.
    South Korea, among the first countries to bring a major coronavirus outbreak under control, is now taking steps to control the disease well into the future, relying heavily on technology and its hyper-connected society.

    The aim is to reinvigorate Asia’s fourth-largest ec...
  • TV doctors pay tribute to the real heroes

    15 Apr, 2020

    Actors from ‘ER,’ ‘Grey’s Anatomy,’ ‘House’, ‘The Good Doctor’ and more give their heartfelt thanks to the real heroes in the frontlines. They also used this viral video to promote #FirstResondersFirst, an initiative by Harvard School of Public Health, Thrive Global and Creative Artists Agency (CAA) to provide essential supplies, equipment and resources to protect all the healthcare workers. 




    Click here if you want to know more about the initiative. 
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  • Three lessons for the COVID-19 response from pandemic HIV

    15 Apr, 2020
    The HIV pandemic provides lessons for the response to the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic: no vaccine is available for either and there are no licensed pharmaceuticals for COVID-19, just as there was not for HIV infection in the early years. Population behaviour will determine the pandemic trajectory of COVID-19, just as it did for HIV.Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and HIV are, of course, different. Untreated HIV infection usually causes death...
  • FDA tightens enforcement on Covid-19 antibody tests

    15 Apr, 2020

    After loosening restrictions on antibody tests, the US Food and Drug Administration has decided government scientists will review data on lab tests that claim they can detect if someone has antibodies to Covid-19, according to the CEO of a lab association who was on a call with FDA officials Tuesday morning.



    On March 16, the FDA loosened its standards and allowed companies to sell antibody tests without submitting any evidence that they worked.That led to "crappy" tests flo...
  • Comparative computational analysis of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein epitopes in taxonomically related coronaviruses

    15 Apr, 2020
    Several research lines are currently ongoing to address the multitude of facets of the pandemic COVID-19. In line with the One-Health concept, extending the target of the studies to the animals which humans are continuously interacting with may favor a better understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 biology and pathogenetic mechanisms; thus, helping to adopt the most suitable containment measures. The last two decades have already faced severe manifestations of the coronavirus infection in both humans...
  • FDA authorizes Covid-19 saliva test for emergency use

    15 Apr, 2020

    The US Food and Drug Administration has authorized a saliva test for "emergency use" for diagnosing Covid-19. Rutgers University, where the test was developed in collaboration with other groups, announced the FDA authorization on Tuesday after formally receiving it over the weekend.
    Using saliva to diagnose novel coronavirus infections could expand testing capacities across the United States. So far testing for Covid-19 has usually involved nose or throat swabs.
    "It means we no long...
  • Why positioning Covid-19 patients on their stomachs can save lives

    15 Apr, 2020

    On Friday, Dr. Mangala Narasimhan received an urgent call. A man in his 40s with Covid-19 was in a dire situation, and her colleague wanted her to come the intensive care unit at Long Island Jewish Hospital to see if he needed to be put on life support.
    Before I come over there, Narasimhan told the other doctor, try turning the patient over onto his stomach and see if that helps.Narasimhan didn't need to go the ICU. The flip worked.
    Doctors are finding that placing the sickest coron...